On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:11:19AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm running on Solaris 2.6, and have built a web server with Apache 1.3.14,
> mod_ssl 2.7.1 and openssl 0.9.6. I've been having problems with random number
> generation for the certificates. I tried installing the SUNwski package that's
> supposed to set up /dev/random, but when I tried to use it to create a
> certificate everything hung. So I've switched to using egd.
>
> All is well with that except:
>
> I have a start-up script in /etc/rc2.d for egd and one in /etc/rc3.d for apache.
> But apache never starts on boot-up and the error message says that it couldn't
> get a random number properly. I even tried putting a sleep (30) in the egd
> startup script and a test for egd in the apache script. It didn't seem to make
> any difference.
>
> Anyone tell me how I get these two to link together, or why apache can't find
> the egd routine when it tries to start up?
Did you think of pointing apache to the socket of your already running egd
in httpd.conf?
...
SSLRandomSeed startup egd:/var/run/egd-pool
...
Best regards,
Lutz
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